(FIX) Guests Avatar = Red X

Captain Joined: Jan 03, 2004 Posts: 501

Hi there...

How come the guest avatar is a red x?
And how can i fix this?

Thx in advanced Smile

Captain Joined: Aug 06, 2003 Posts: 411 Location: Berlin

Do a search for guest_avatar here and read the first post found.

Support Mod Joined: Feb 15, 2004 Posts: 806

Edit /modules/Forums/templates/subSilver/subSilver.cfg, then add this two new lines:

$images['default_avatar'] = "modules/Forums/images/avatars/blank.gif";
$images['guest_avatar'] = "modules/Forums/images/avatars/blank.gif";

Do the same thing with every .cfg files on forum themes (/themes/{NUKE_THEME}/forums/), if any.

If you don't want to waste your time, edit /modules/Forums/viewtopic.php, and find this following lines:

Code:

//
// Start initial var setup
//

Before, add:

Code:

if (!isset($images['default_avatar']) || $images['default_avatar'] == "")
{
$images['default_avatar'] = "modules/Forums/images/avatars/blank.gif";
}

if (!isset($images['guest_avatar']) || $images['guest_avatar'] == "")
{
$images['guest_avatar'] = "modules/Forums/images/avatars/blank.gif";
}

Captain Joined: Jan 03, 2004 Posts: 501

Thank you all for your help Smile

Sergeant Joined: Feb 15, 2004 Posts: 114

Works great, finaly a working solution for this issue! THX Very Happy

Sergeant Joined: Feb 10, 2004 Posts: 116

Thanks heaps it worked

I was using the Helius theme so i had to surf to theme folder and edit the forums.cfg file. I also did subsilver as well just in case.

all is well, i have been searching for this fix for some time

thanks again

TT

Nuke Soldier Joined: Jul 31, 2004 Posts: 24

madman wrote:

If you don't want to waste your time, edit /modules/Forums/viewtopic.php, and find this following lines:

Code:

//
// Start initial var setup
//

Before, add:

Code:

if (!isset($images['default_avatar']) || $images['default_avatar'] == "")
{
$images['default_avatar'] = "modules/Forums/images/avatars/blank.gif";
}

if (!isset($images['guest_avatar']) || $images['guest_avatar'] == "")
{
$images['guest_avatar'] = "modules/Forums/images/avatars/blank.gif";
}

Thank you much.

Nuke Soldier Joined: Jul 23, 2004 Posts: 22

Unfortunately, this didn't work for me. I'm using the Chronicles theme pack, and I edited the .cfg file as instructed above, with no luck. Going into a user profile, I was able to successfully browse the avatar gallery, and even select an avatar. It then told me that my avatar had been succesffuly changed. But going to any page that should have an avatar on it (i.e. Your Account) nets me the same broken image icon. Viewing the page source shows the culprit:

Code:

Note the duplication of gallery in the path. I checked in the Forums Admin Panel, and the avatar gallery path is correctly set: images/gallery, and the phpbb root path is also correctly set. Any ideas of what could be causing this?

Support Mod Joined: Feb 15, 2004 Posts: 806

maddys_daddy wrote:

I checked in the Forums Admin Panel, and the avatar gallery path is correctly set: images/gallery, and the phpbb root path is also correctly set. Any ideas of what could be causing this?

It's incorrect if your avatars upload and avatar gallery directories pointing to "modules/Forums/images/avatars" and "modules/Forums/images/avatars/gallery", respectively. In this case, from forum admin panel preferences, avatars upload must pointing to "modules/Forums/images/avatars" and avatar gallery to "modules/Forums/images/avatars/gallery".

Nuke Soldier Joined: Jul 23, 2004 Posts: 22

madman wrote:

It's incorrect if your avatars upload and avatar gallery directories pointing to "modules/Forums/images/avatars" and "modules/Forums/images/avatars/gallery", respectively. In this case, from forum admin panel preferences, avatars upload must pointing to "modules/Forums/images/avatars" and avatar gallery to "modules/Forums/images/avatars/gallery".

I'm a bit puzzled by your reply. The paths you first mention (in quotes) as being incorrect are identical to the paths you mention second as being correct. If you're saying that I need the full path from the phpnuke root, instead of phpbb's root (as is default), then that worked for me. Also, I had to remove the /gallery part from the gallery path, since phpnuke seemed to be appending that on it's own. Now I can browse the gallery from the Your_Account module, and select (and see!) my avatar.

Support Mod Joined: Feb 15, 2004 Posts: 806

maddys_daddy wrote:

I'm a bit puzzled by your reply. The paths you first mention (in quotes) as being incorrect are identical to the paths you mention second as being correct.

Sorry if it was look complicated. Basically, avatars and avatars gallery path follows the PHP-Nuke base path. For example, based on system path hierarchy:

Your forum path as follows: modules/Forums
Avatar path as follows: modules/Forums/images/avatars
Avatar gallery path as follows: modules/Forums/images/avatars/gallery

In phpbb, we usually set both avatar path based on phpbb relative path as follows:
Avatar path as follows: images/avatars
Avatar gallery path as follows: images/avatars/gallery

But in some bb2nuke ported module, they should configured as follows:
Avatar path as follows: modules/Forums/images/avatars
Avatar gallery path as follows: modules/Forums/images/avatars/gallery

But to be honest, there's no standard between bb2nuke and Your_Account module, and I saw many contradictives between these modules regarding to avatar's path. Unfortunately, each bb2nuke version also has incompatibilities on how to alter these avatar's path. Because of this reason, I never upgrade my bb2nuke and Your_Account modules to avoid this kind of problem.

Sergeant Joined: Aug 07, 2004 Posts: 88

Thx hostile that code cured my problem as well no more red x's. Very Happy

Nice work dood

Nuke Cadet Joined: Aug 27, 2004 Posts: 8

i looked all over the place for that start initial ver, my thing doesnt has it..........i use 2.1.0 theme Gametech

Support Mod Joined: Feb 15, 2004 Posts: 806

crimsonred wrote:

i looked all over the place for that start initial ver, my thing doesnt has it..........i use 2.1.0 theme Gametech

It's in viewtopic.php, located in Forums module directory and not in any of PHP-Nuke themes. Smile

Posted: Sat Sep 11, 2004 4:29 am

Worked For Me Also Thanx... Wink